Shaken From My Slumber By Olberman

It's been months since I've posted anything here, but I'm awake again.

My nap was interrupted by the intentional destruction of a life, a reputation and a career by a right wing blogger named Breitbart, and unintentionally by everyone else who should have known better.

Keith is in best form when he scolds everyone from Breitbart, to Obama. And he's right, we all need to do our best to stand up to those who would destroy others for their own profit.

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Billy Bragg vs the bankers

Over in Britain, the general public is as outraged as we are here about bailed-out bankers receiving huge bonuses. RSB (Royal Bank of Scotland) is now owned, in large part, by the government and the taxpayers. Billy Bragg has begun a campaign to stop the payment of bonuses, and he's declared he'll withhold his taxes to prove his point. I think it's called talking with the poet about taxes.

Kate McGarrigle, RIP

Kate McGarrigle, the influential and popular folks singer who sang for years with her sister Anna as the McGarrigle Sisters has died after a long battle with clear-cell carcinoma. McGarrigle was formerly married to Loudon Wainwright III and is the mother of singers Rufus and Martha Wainwright.

All you single deputies

Jeff Bridges, America's most under-appreciated actor, gets his due

There ain't half been some clever bastards

An Ian Dury biopic. Now only if it can get theatrical release in the US.